 The second by commerce,which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle wrought by the hand of God in his favour, as a reward...  Essays and Letters - Page 19by Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 378 pages
...Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours—this is robbery - t the second by commerce, which is generally cheating ; the third by agriculture,...receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the Cund, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the id of God in his favour, as a reward for his innocent... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1857 - 582 pages
...conquered neighbours. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third is by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed sown in the ground, in a kind of continual miracle wrought by the hand of God in his favour, as a reward... | |
 | Church work with the poor - 1857 - 784 pages
...Komans did in plundering their conquered neighbours—this is robbery ; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating ; the third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein a man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1859 - 618 pages
...conquered neighbors. This is robbery.—The second by commerce, which is, generally, cheating.—The third by agriculture, the only honest way; wherein...continual miracle wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life, and his virtuous industry. April 4, 1769. B. F". Provision... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - English essays - 1861 - 630 pages
...conquered neighbours. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third is by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed sown in the ground, in a kind of continual miracle wrought by the hand of God in his favour, as a reward... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...conquered neighbours. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third is by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein Man receives a real increase of the seed sown in the ground, in a kind of continual miracle wrought by the hand of God in his favour, as a reward... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 pages
...conquered neighbours. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third is by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed sown in the ground, in a kind of continual miracle wrought by the hand of God in his favour, as a reward... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 pages
...conquered neighbours. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third is by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed sown in the ground, in a kind of continual miracle wrought by the hand of God in his favour, as a reward... | |
 | David Thomas - 1881 - 446 pages
...Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours, this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way wherein a man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground in a kind of continual miracle, wrought... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1882 - 592 pages
...Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the...continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry. • Franklin does not, probably,... | |
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